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Desi Lydic Says Gregory Bovino Got ‘Iced Out’

“We’re not throwing you under the bus — we’re throwing you onto a bus, and sending it far, far away,” the “Daily Show” host said of the recalled Border Patrol official.

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The Rise and Fall of South Korean First Lady Kim Keon Hee

Kim Keon Hee was unlike any presidential spouse South Korea had seen. Her downfall, on corruption charges, came after her husband declared martial law.

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Man Rushes Ilhan Omar at Minneapolis Town Hall and Sprays Her

A man who had been sitting in the front row rushed at the Democratic representative and sprayed her with a strong-smelling liquid. He was removed by security and later booked into jail.

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Tails of the City: San Francisco’s Latest Animal Sensation Is a Mountain Lion

The 2-year-old male was safely captured after he got stuck between two apartment buildings.

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Dozens Arrested After Anti-ICE Protest at a Manhattan Hilton

The demonstration at the TriBeCa hotel followed a similar targeting of a Hilton property in Minneapolis on Sunday.

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Republicans Shift Tone After Killings, Criticizing Trump’s Immigration Push

With the president signaling a pivot in his crackdown, G.O.P. lawmakers have felt freer to express concern. But it’s not clear what they are willing to do about it.

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Why Did the Trump Administration Silence Bovino on Social Media?

When the border chief got yanked from Minnesota, he lost access to his X account, too.

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Democrats Restore Minnesota House to Even Split Amid Immigration Turmoil

In special elections on Tuesday, Democrats won two left-leaning districts, preventing Republicans from holding a majority in the State House of Representatives.

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U.S. Expects to Finish Review of Epstein Files Soon, Bondi Says

By law, the government was required to release its files on Jeffrey Epstein in December. Now the attorney general said they will be out “in the near term.”

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D.H.S. Review Does Not Say Pretti Brandished Gun, As Noem Claimed

An initial report from an internal agency watchdog says the Minneapolis man was shot by law enforcement after resisting arrest, but makes no mention of the allegations leveled by a Trump administration official.

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Noem’s Handling of Shooting Put Her in Trump’s Penalty Box, but Just Briefly

Kristi Noem’s aggressiveness has sometimes given President Trump heartburn. She got a rebuke after a second killing by federal immigration agents but soon seemed to be back in his good graces.

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Trump Suggests He Will ‘De-Escalate’ in Minneapolis, Without Offering Details

President Trump continued to put the blame on Alex Pretti for legally carrying a weapon with a permit, saying, “You can’t walk in with guns.”

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Trump Threatens to Pull U.S. Help From Iraq if Former Leader Returns

Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a former prime minister, has been nominated to the post by the main Shiite Muslim bloc in the Iraqi Parliament.

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Who Decides When a Home Is Safe? A California Bill Says Science, Not Insurers.

Following a Times investigation, a state lawmaker is proposing the first health-based standards for assessing smoke contamination after wildfires.

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U.S. Population Growth Slows Sharply

Also, some good news for a Broadway musical. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

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Democrats Push to Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem After Minneapolis Shooting

Following the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, a drive to impeach the homeland security secretary has drawn dozens more Democratic supporters, including the party’s top three leaders.

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Southwest Begins Assigned Seating, Scrapping a Signature Quirk

The airline said its new policy, rolled out on Tuesday, responded to passengers’ preferences, but some customers said the scramble was part of the charm.

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Virginia Judge Blocks Democrats’ Efforts to Redraw Congressional Maps

Democratic leaders vowed to appeal the lower court ruling, which found that the legislative process behind the redistricting push was improper.

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Judge Revives Wind Farm That Trump Halted Off Martha’s Vineyard

The project, known as Vineyard Wind, was already 95 percent complete when the Trump administration ordered construction to stop.

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Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95

As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system.

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Storm Deaths Reach 10, Testing Mamdani’s Handling of a Weather Emergency

After first saying that it did not appear that the dead were homeless people, Mayor Zohran Mamdani has vowed to do more to get people into shelters.

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Judge Temporarily Blocks Deportation of 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE in Minnesota

An image of the boy, wearing a Spider-Man backpack as he was detained by federal agents, became a symbol of the immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

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The Dream Palace of the Immigration Hard-Liners

Is this really the only way to enforce the law?

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Should Iran’s Executioners Go Unpunished?

It’s left to the United States to impose meaningful consequences on the Iranian regime for one of the worst atrocities of this century.

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Former French Senator Convicted of Drugging a Colleague, Intending to Assault Her

The trial took on special resonance in France, a year after a court found Dominique Pelicot and dozens of other men guilty of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was sedated.

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Radar Scans of Antarctica Offer Clues to What’s Happening on Jupiter’s Moon

Scientists are using radar to study damaged ice both in Antarctica and, with the help of a NASA spacecraft, on Jupiter’s ocean moon of Europa.

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Bari Weiss Urges CBS News to Think Like a ‘Start-Up’

“We are not producing a product enough people want,” Ms. Weiss told employees at her first all-staff meeting at the network.

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Spain Offers Undocumented Migrants a Legal Way to Stay

The measure, unexpectedly approved, comes as other countries are cracking down on immigration.

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Texas Moves to Curtail Visas for Skilled Foreign Workers

Gov. Greg Abbott said the state would investigate public agencies and universities that employ those with H-1B visas, a program the Trump administration has also targeted.

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Man Went on ‘Trial Run’ Before Killing 4 Homeless Men, Prosecutors Say

Randy Rodriguez Santos faces four murder charges for the beating deaths of homeless men in Manhattan’s Chinatown in 2019. The killings left the city’s homeless population on edge.

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